[papsosouid]

>As a seasoned WordPress developer

You realize that puts your credibility in the negatives right? Wordpress is infamous for being one of the worst pieces of software ever created. The fact that your software is terrible does not mean a company whose sole purpose is to be experts at making that terrible software run is doing good by failing to make it run.

[justinph]

Puh-leeze. Everyone thinks some other software is terrible. Wordpress might have some funky bits, but a) it's gotten a lot better over the years, b) it's pretty damn popular, and c) end users don't care if the guts suck if the UI works and it does the job.

Get over yourself.

[papsosouid]

Did you have a point to make? Shitty software being popular doesn't make the authors of that shitty software any less biased when discussing that shitty software.

[webwright]

Yeah, WordPress powers (by some estimations) 18-20% of the freakin' Internet. It's not flawless, but it's a great piece of software that makes millions of people (and developers) happy.

[papsosouid]

"It is popular" does not in any way contradict my statement which was "it is a pile of shit". Internet explorer used to "power the internet" too. It was also a colossal pile of shit.

[smacktoward]

There is generally more business to be found cleaning up piles of shit than there is shining stacks of gold.

Or as they say in the UK: "Where there's muck, there's brass." http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/408900.html

[csomar]

I don't understand the correlation between the two. From your perspective, since the financial market is terrible, all people working on finance are terrible.

WordPress is a bad piece of software. But there is a lot of money there, and you'll find lots of smart people working on it.

[papsosouid]

I don't understand how you can not understand. You are in part responsible for this terrible software. Which is horribly bloated and inefficient and runs like crap. So it is in your best interests to try to pretend anyone who has a terrible experience with it is "doing something unusual and different". The reality is we're talking about a setup that is about as simple as wordpress can be. The fact that "as simple as wordpress can be" is an insanely complex monstrosity doesn't let people who said "we can handle your complex wordpress installs no problem" off the hook.

[wyck]

Open mouth insert foot.